Lesson 17: India Wins Freedom
Lesson Plan
Suggested time: 5-6 periods (40 mins each)
Content
Objectives
Tools/Materials used
Introducing the
Lesson
Methodology
• The Rowlatt Act and the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
• Non-Cooperation Movement
• Simon Commission
• Poorna Swaraj
• Civil Disobedience Movement
To enable students to:
• appreciate Gandhiji’s contribution to the freedom struggle
• recognise the impact of the Rowlatt Act and the Jalianwala Bagh Massacre
on the freedom movement
• describe the Non-Cooperation Movement, the Civil Disobedience
Movement, the demand for Purna Swaraj and the Quit India Movement
• appreciate the vital role played by Subhash Chandra Bose and the INA in
the freedom struggle
• describe how India finally won its freedom
Timeline 5, chalk and board
Use the Let’s begin… as a warm up to introduce the lesson. Ask the students
to look at the given pictures and write the number in the boxes for the
description given for each picture.
Teaching the lesson
• Describe Gandhiji’s return to India from South Africa. Tell the students how
Gandhiji felt about the caste system, the level of education given to women
and other evil practices that were prevalent in India.
• Explain the Rowlatt Act, which gave the British the authority to arrest
anyone they felt was involved in revolutionary activities, India’s protest and
the launch of the Satyagraha Movements.
• Describe the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar and its consequences.
• Discuss the way the Indians felt after the massacre and how Gandhiji
launched the Non-Cooperation Movement and the CivilDisobedience
Movement.
• Explain his reason for launching these movements and the support for such
movements.
• Also explain the reason for withdrawal of Non Cooperation movement by
Gandhiji.
• Describe the protests against Simon Commission and India’s demand for
complete independence.
• Ask the students to match the columns in the Think and answer… section.
• Explain the reasons for the World War II and who the British were fighting
against. Tell them for how long the war went on and who won in the end.
• Explain the Quit India Movement.
Lesson 17: India Wins Freedom
Lesson Plan
Suggested time: 5-6 periods (40 mins each)
• Tell them about the Indian National Army and Subhash Chandra Bose’s
involvement in the freedom struggle.
• Organise a debate in the class on the topic ‘The non violent and peaceful
protest is more effective and fruitful than the violent revolt or proptest’ in the
Let’s talk… section.
• Tell the students how in the end the British decided to leave India and the
partition that took place. You can bring a map of India that shows India
before and after the partition to give the students a clear picture as to how
India and Pakistan were divided.
Let’s answer…
Students can complete Exercises A, B, C, D and E on pages 125 & 126 orally.
They can write the answers in their notebooks, at home. Ask the students to
finish the multiple choice Questions and call out the answers in class.
Let’s do…
• Project Work
(F) The students are required to draw a picture of Gandhiji on a chart paper
and write some words told by him.
• Activity Time
(G.1) Ask the students to fill in the grid with the help of clues.
(G.2) The students are required to visit the website given in the text book and
answer the questions.
Life skills…
Ask the students to cross out the things from the list that Gandhiji would not
have liked us to do.